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  • 2008
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2008
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
Full Grown Men

Summary Set in a stylized yet familiar landscape of Americana, Munro’s whimsical cautionary tale follows Alby Cutrera, a 35-year-old husband and father who longs for the days of his carefree boyhood when his only occupation was playing with his action figures. Desperate to escape the confines of adulthood and return to his halcyon days, Alby tra...

Directed By: David Munro

Written By: Xandra Castleton, David Munro

  • 2008
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2008
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m

Full Grown Men

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Set in a stylized yet familiar landscape of Americana, Munro’s whimsical cautionary tale follows Alby Cutrera, a 35-year-old husband and father who longs for the days of his carefree boyhood when his only occupation was playing with his action figures. Desperate to escape the confines of adulthood and return to his halcyon days, Alby tra...

Directed By: David Munro

Written By: Xandra Castleton, David Munro

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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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58% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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58% Mixed
7 Reviews
17% Negative
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75
A poignant, quirky and effective alternative to the usual soulless, computer-generated summer fare.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
63
It's dramatically unsatisfying.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
50
Full Grown Men marks the feature debut of director David Munro, who was born and raised in Miami and shoots Florida like a native.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
50
In the end, Full Grown Men tells an amusing tale, and the cameo scenes from Alan Cumming and Amy Sedaris are not to be missed.
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40
Friedlander offers a nicely subtle performance, but the other actors - including Alan Cumming, Deborah Harry and Amy Sedaris - appear to have turned up as a favor to the director. Don't feel obliged to follow their lead.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
Obviously, Munro is reaching for something about how people allow themselves to get mired in the past. But his characters and situations are so exaggerated and dreary that his point gets quickly lost.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW
30
This candy-colored movie, whose soft hues match the colored cereal loops that Alby devours at his mother's house, is a post-Freudian fable that wants to be a kind of anti-"Wizard of Oz" for a culture inundated with toys and toons.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Grottofilms
Release Date Jun 25, 2008
Duration 1 h 18 m
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Tagline They've got their whole past in front of them.
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